In a surprise to no one at all, sales of the 3DS have fallen by 50% week-over-week. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the reason for this sales decline is the 32% price drop that is forthcoming for the 3DS on August 12th. You do get some free games if you buy it before then, but quite frankly I’m a little surprised the drop wasn’t bigger. I’m assuming next week the sales will be even fewer, as there were a couple days of sales before the announcement on the 28th.
The sales chart for Japan for July 25th – July 31st :
This Week Last Week
PSP 36.659 26.854
PS3 20.704 23.343
Wii 18.232 17.114
3DS 16.415 31.826
DSiLL 5.267 5.258
DSi 4.625 4.921
360 1.616 1.546
PS2 1.594 1.475
DSL 138 155
PSPGo 7 14
Does anyone else absolutely love the 7 sales the PSPGo managed? I hope stores keep finding them under the couch cushions so we can keep seeing them reported. Perhaps the story here really is the 50% drop in PSPGo sales though, the future doesn’t look good for that system with declines like this.